Errata

This post contains a list of known errors in the book. Equations are rendered using MathJax, which requires Javascript. Please send email to the Gmail account holton.hakim if you know of errors not included below. Thank you --Greg Hakim

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• page 14, line 9: "measures" should be "measure"
• page 15, line 3: "...increases the westerly momentum..." is confusing, and should read, "...increases the zonal momentum..."
• section 2.1: all occurrences of "total derivative" should read "material derivative" since the former is used in contexts not related to rates of change following the motion. (Thanks Dale Durran) 
• page 57, line 5: (2.54) should be (2.53)
• page 65, problem 2.10: this problem should be in the problem section  for Chapter 3. 
• page 91, line 4 should read "... Southern Hemisphere (\(f<0 \)) case."
• page 112, line 8: \(\frac{U \theta^*}{\rho H L} + \frac{f \theta^*}{H}\) should read \(\frac{U \theta^*}{\rho^* H L} + \frac{f \theta^*}{\rho^* H}\)
• page 115, equation (4.31) is missing a minus sign.
• page 115, sentence above equation (4.32) should read, "Integrating the hydrostatic equation from the top of the fluid, \(h(x,y,t)\), to level \(z\), gives..."
• page 116, equation (4.35) and the logic leading to it, is wrong. Since pressure depends on (x,y,z,t), the total differential has contributions from those variables that give an identity for Dp/Dt. Instead, one may take \(\frac{D}{Dt}\) of (4.32), giving $$\frac{Dp}{Dt} = \rho_0 g\left(\frac{Dh}{Dt} - w \right)  $$ which yields (4.36) at \( z = h\).
• page 117, Figure 4.11: although technically correct, the labels for \(\theta\) on the right side of the figure should reflect \(z\).
• page 118, the third line of section 4.5.1 should read "...density depends only on pressure." (thanks Leo Kroon).
• page 118, Figure 4.12: in the upper panel of the figure, the rightmost vorticity value of \(\zeta < 0\) should read \(\zeta = 0 \). (Thanks Uma Bhatt)
• page 142, last line: \(v' = -ikg/f\) should read \(v' = ikgh'/f\)  (thanks Fang-Ching Chien)
• page 143, 4th line: \(u' = c/\bar{h}\) should read \(u' = ch'/\bar{h}\) (thanks Fang-Ching Chien)
• page 150, line before equation (5.73): should read "Using (5.71) and (5.72) to evaluate (5.70)..." (thanks Ewan Short)
• page 151, three lines below equation (5.70): "...form of (5.49):" should read "...form of (5.69):" (thanks Leo Kroon)
• page 152, Figure 5.11: \(\hat{M}_0\) should read \(M_0\)  (thanks Fang-Ching Chien)
• page 162, below equation (5.111) should read " which reduces to (5.107) when the..." (thanks Tom Guinn)
• page 162, 6 lines from the bottom should read " ...(see Problem 5.15) ..." (thanks Tom Guinn)
• page 181, line -8: "...we can make..." (extra "we") (Thanks Fang-Ching Chien)
• page 190, line -10: "...and if the zonal wind increases..." should be "...and a zonal wind that increases..." 
• page 195, equation (6.37): a factor of \(f\) is missing from the right side.  The full equation should read:$$ {\rm L} \frac{\partial p}{\partial t} \, = \, -{\bf V}_g {\bf \cdot} {\bf \nabla}_h (f  \zeta_g) - {\bf V}_g {\bf \cdot \nabla}_h \left(f^2 \frac{\partial}{\partial z}\frac{d\bar{\theta}}{dz}^{-1} \theta \right)$$ (Thanks Joel Norris)
• page 197, equation (6.40): \(\zeta\) should be \(\zeta_g\) (thanks Fang-Ching Chien
• page 198, equation (6.42): \(\zeta\) should be \(\zeta_g\) (thanks Fang-Ching Chien
• page 199, equation (6.47): the very last term should read $$ -v_j \frac{\partial}{\partial x_j}\frac{\partial\zeta}{\partial x_3}$$ (Thanks Joel Norris)
• page 199, equation (6.49): the right hand side of the equation should have a minus sign.
• page 201, line below equation (6.55): \(\partial v_i \partial x_3 \) should read \(\partial v_i/ \partial x_3 \). The three lines after (6.55) are mixed together, and should read "... is the deformation term. The deformation term is one of two terms in the divergence of the Q-vector. Noting that ..., in vector notation, " (thanks Fang-Ching Chien)
• page 203, Fig. 6.17: the abscissa label should be \(y\) (thanks Fang-Ching Chien)
• page 205, last sentence: "...we expect clouds to form, releasing latent heat." (thanks Fang-Ching Chien)
• page 206, line 4, (see Figure 6.10a) should read: (see Figure 4.10a) (thanks Fang-Ching Chien)
• page 240. The first sentence of constraint 1. should read, " If \(\partial\bar{u}/\partial z^* = 0 \) at \(z^* = 0\) ..." (Thanks Nora Leps)
• page 262: There is an extraneous \(h\) in the definition of wind speed below the main equations. (Thanks Tom Guinn)
• page 268: Footnote 3 should read "...eddy stress (see footnote 2)..." (Thanks Ben Green)
• page 314, equation (9.58) should read: \(m \, = \, r v + \frac{1}{2} f r^2 \)
• page 373, line 10: ..."water vapor increase..." should be "...water vapor increases..."
• page 401: equations (11.27) and (11.28) should read \(-\partial\Phi^{'}/\partial x \) and \(-\partial\Phi^{'}/\partial y \), respectively. (Thanks Rob Korty)
• page 437: third line should read "...is identical to (11.41)" (Thanks Joe Hollowed)
• page 438: third line should read "..dispersion relation (11.39)" (Thanks Joe Hollowed)
• page 499: in the statement of the divergence theorem \({\bf V \cdot B}\) should read   \({\bf \nabla \cdot B}\) (Thanks Fred Carr)
• page 499: in the statement of Stokes' theorem \({\bf V \times B}\) should read \({\bf \nabla \times B}\) (Thanks Fred Carr)